The Times also learned that James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, was interviewed last year by the special counsel investigators. They discussed memos he wrote detailing his interactions with Mr. Trump.

Though the state-run Korean Central News Agency did not say how the occasion would be observed, there is speculation that Pyongyang will hold a large military parade in a show of force.

North Korea has agreed to send 22 athletes to Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the Games next month.

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• Fifty-eight refugees who had been stuck at a detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, shown above in November, were boarding flights to the U.S. They were held there under Australia’s offshore detention policy.

• When he showed up at school after a nearly three-mile trek, 8-year-old Wang Fuman was covered in frost. The picture his teacher took lit up Chinese social media and sparked a national outcry over rural poverty.

• The U.S. defense secretary, Jim Mattis, was in Indonesia, where the government wants the U.S. to ease sanctions on an elite military unit implicated in rights abuses in the 1990s. [Reuters]

• Sweden asked China to explain what happened to a Hong Kong bookseller with Swedish citizenship who was detained in China on Saturday. It got no response. [The New York Times]

• In Karachi, Pakistan, a police commander has been forced out after what he called a shootout with the Taliban ended in the death of an aspiring model. [The New York Times]

• In South Korea, a court sentenced Cho Yoon-sun, a former culture minister, to two years in prison for creating and managing a blacklist of artists deemed critical of ousted President Park Geun-hye’s government. [Yonhap]

• In Hong Kong, the democracy activist Joshua Wong was granted bail as he appeals a jail sentence over the 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations. [The South China Morning Post]

• The mayor of Venice vowed to “thoroughly examine” why four Japanese tourists were charged $1,347 at a restaurant for water, four steaks and a plate of fish. (Yes, that includes service.) [BBC]

• In memoriam. Naomi Parker Fraley, 96, the real “Rosie the Riveter” who became a 1940s pop culture icon and a feminist touchstone; Hugh Masekela, 78, a South African trumpeter, singer and activist whose music symbolized the anti-apartheid movement.

• And a woman evaded airport security in Chicago and flew to London without a passport or a ticket. It wasn't her first time.

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